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“Big Dig” kicks off expansion
Children's celebrated the groundbreaking of its new clinical building with a 250-gallon Brigham's "Big Dig" ice cream party, free Children's baseball caps for employees and live music by the reggae band Hot Like Fire. Poster displays and a model of the planned 11-story facility depicted the future of the hospital.
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In this issue...


Workplace of choice? Survey says staff think so
In June, Children's conducted a hospital-wide survey to assess the institution's strengths and weaknesses...

ECMO survivors celebrate life
More than 60 past patients and their families came together earlier this month in the Prouty garden to meet the people who some them through their battles...

BMT unit gets new look and feel
New England's only stand-alone pediatric bone marrow transplant unit just got a facelift...

Gratitudes...
“...When I arrived I found my son on the ECMO machine, his life hanging by a fragile thread...”

Recent research at Children's

Discovery suggests bone marrow cells can travel to diseased muscle fibers
Findings raise hopes for a future muscular dystrophy treatment...

In lab, fat mice slim down
Weight loss and maintenance achieved with cancer drugs...



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News notes...

David S. Weiner Award

Children Helping Children's

Dial 5 is going live

JFK/UMASS Shuttle extended

Benefits news

Nursing news

In pictures...

ED gets new type of plasma

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